What are you Planning for 2021?

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  1. Mike Allen

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    Big, Warm welcome to the forum. This is perhaps the main thing about gardening. You never stop learning. Learning can at times become a bore, but trust me. Here on gardeners corner, good friendly advice and help is always on hand. Never hold back from asking, whatever the question is.
     
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      My plans/Hopes for 2021. To rake up enough so as to take my daughter Amanda away for a few days break. Poor little lass. She is sadly disabled herself, yet she clings to me like a limpit. Honestly. I don't know where she gets the energy from. Throughout her life, she has always ended up with the dirty end of the stick. So before I get to clog popping time. I want to treat her. Is that too much to ask????????????
       
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        Determined to get my lazy sago palms to flush this year or its landfill time..
         
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          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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          Did hear you need to water them with warm water during the summer, but never tried it.
           
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            :bigthumb: @pete

            Will give that a go. Made many mistakes with them over the years,its been a killing zone.

            Waterlogging,cold and a big one has had 99% of its roots eaten by vine weevils.
            So with the warm water, new greenhouse and vine weevil killer maybe just maybe some growth this year.
             
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              I could not see where to post so I have replied to you as its on the subject..Hope you do not mind..:love30:
              Hour ahead here so around 7.45am. I have made plans to make the garden a little easier to keep it's and acre which was 100% farm land so the grass is tough but no as tough as the...wild flowers we try to call them...:gaah:So I smallish area of blackberries raspberry's and a mix of lambs tongue hardy geraniums and 1 peony still in situ....weeds by the bucket loads...all gone except the P. worked really hard to remove the plants and the weeds around September when it had cooled a tad. Eventually after several weeks of slogging the soil was as ready as it could be to sow the grass seed.Soil still warm so was going to grow...but it didn't really, I can see some shoots but not as it should be...and the weeds...were is that swear box:nonofinger:. All I call do is regroup this project in the early spring..its fenced off with chicken wire to keep our 1 surviving chicken, Henryetta out, because she will just make holes as chickens will do, just digs and digs...bless her.:loll:
              Its a 'nicea.. place' here and I feel I have had a good welcome. Time for a cuppa.
               
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                Planning for 2021?
                My plan is to finally give my garden some rest.
                After (purposely) killing 80% of the plants I inherited from the previous owner and replacing them with edibles. I sure am hoping for a bountiful harvest or at least a sea of flowers blooming where once stood only boxwood bushes ravaged by caterpillars.
                 
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                  Planning for late 2022 in 2021, we've decided to move to a bungalow when my wife retires so I'll be working out what plants to keep and trying to rehome all the others (I'd prefer to give them to someone who will enjoy them)
                   
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                    What kind of plants do you have? Can't you just take them all to your new home? What cruel thing to do...
                     
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                      I like to grow flowers for bees and butterflies and hoverflies.
                      For the first time growing some verbascum and verbina bonerenses from seed. Also the same things like pot marigolds, Snapdragons and cosmos. Got lupins, lavender, knautia and hardy geraniums.
                       
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                        I think I know only half of those flowers by their English name, but those I do know sound awesome.
                        Wish a lot more people would plant happy flowers for bees
                        I so dread those modern-art-gardens with 95% gravel and a single japanese fern in the middle... Sadly you see them almost everywhere now (at least in Germany)
                         
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                          Not around my way, loads of veggie plots and fruit trees and mounds of builders waste some becoming rockeries and some left for whatever reason....Our garden is coming along still,but we have some good features like two small ponds a veggie patch Shrubs and other plants and a rockery still ongoing.. but try not to have exposed ground as the weeds are unfriendly..takeover with a blink of an eye...Lots of rough farmland grass but that is cut with a tractor mower...Just ordered a small Greenhouse, mainly for growing seeds, as keen to have more colour around us this summer.... Climate similar to the UK here, but we do get very hot spells that plants do suffer sometimes.....
                           
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                            Still planning on moving house, find another job (unless I can work remotely for my current employer), somehow celebrate my 60th without family and friends (the planned trip to Switzerland is no more), but more importantly, learn more gardening :) that is one constant that always gives happiness, no matter what is going on in the world.

                            Vaccine tomorrow :)
                             
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                              @Tinkerbelle61
                              Thats really sad to hear. I hope you find something nice in 2021 and get to celebrate with friends and families. We also had to cancel Christmas and with that the only chance to see our family (the are kind of scattered around)

                              @DianneW
                              Lucky you. A third of all new gardens around here tend to look like this
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                              I have a feeling that lots of the older folks want to lose the hassle that comes with an owned garden. And lots of the younger folks plan them that way together with their new houses or convert them as they inherit the home from their grandparents.

                              i mean who wouldn't want to cut down an old apple tree for something like this....
                               
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                                I'll take some pics in the summer, i grow fruit in the back garden.
                                 
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